THE
priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel:
they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance.
2 Therefore
shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their
inheritance, as he hath said unto them.
3 And
this shall be the priest?s due from the people, from them that offer a
sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they
shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.
4 The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.
5 For the
LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the
name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.
6 And if
a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel,
where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place
which the LORD shall choose;
7 Then he
shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brethren the Levites
do, which stand there before the LORD.
8 They
shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his
patrimony.
9 When
thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth
thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the
abominations of those nations.
10 There
shall not be found among you any one that maketh
his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or
that useth divination, or an observer of
times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
11 Or a
charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
12 For
all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because
of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.
14 For
these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened
unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God
hath not suffered thee so to do.
15 The
LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy
brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;
16 According
to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear
again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any
more, that I die not.
17 And
the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that
which they have spoken.
18 I
will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and
will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall
command him.
19 And
it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words
which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
20 But
the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my
name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name
of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
21 And
if thou say in thine heart, How
shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?
22 When
a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing
which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it
presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.